Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Dec 2005 18:03 UTC, submitted by Andy Updegrove
"I'm very sorry to report that Peter Quinn, the CIO of Massachusetts who has been at the center of a controversy relating to his efforts at the Information Technology Division to adopt the OpenDocument format for the use of the Commonwealth's Executive Agencies, has resigned."
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2005-11-02
"Er... Microsoft was and is a member of OASIS and they themselves worked on that standard. If it was so bad when they were working on it, why didn't they raise any issues then?"
A lie. You should be more careful.
http://www.oasis-open.org/about/foundational_sponsors.php
Wrong buddy as usual you are the liar. The list you give is for "foundational sponsors", the full list of OASIS members is at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/about/
If you can read english you will see that Microsoft is a member of OASIS. It did however boycott attending the technical committee working on the ODF, though it was fully entitled to attend.
Initial participants in the foundation of the OASIS ODF Technical Committee in 2002 came from:
Boeing, Stellent, Sun Microsystems, CSW Informatics,
National Archive of Australia, Society of Biblical Literature, Arbortext, SpeedLegal, New York State Office of the Attorney General, Corel and Drake Certivo
They were later joined by representatives from IBM and I believe Novell. Microsoft declined to join the committee.